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Patrick Stewart shares a son and a daughter with his first wife Sheila Falconer
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Ezra Frech Disney/Ser Baffo Tap Here To Add Us Magazine As A Trusted Source Two-time Paralympic gold medalist Ezra Frech shared a heartbreaking story of his teenage crush making an insensitive comment about his hand.
"One time I put my arm around some girl that I liked, and she went and told everybody, 'Ezra put his creepy hand around me,'" Frech, 21, remembered on "On Purpose With Jay Shetty" on Monday, October 19. "[It's] little things like that when you're young in middle school that change your perception of yourself in some ways."
The track-and-field athlete laughed as he compared his vulnerable conversation with the podcast's host, Jay Shetty , to "therapy," adding, "I've never even said that story ever in my life."
Frech was born with congenital limb differences, including just one finger on his left hand. While amputating his left leg when he was 2 years old, surgeons transplanted the Los Angeles native's big toe onto his hand so that he could better grasp and hold objects.
The Dancing With the Stars contestant admitted during Monday's interview that he was always more insecure about the appearance of his hand than his leg.
"There was points — even [in] middle school, early high school — where I would hide my left hand," he shared, noting that he would "put it behind my back" or "stand in certain ways" to avoid people noticing his fingers. "I accepted my prosthetic and thought it felt cooler but never understood the importance of accepting my hand as well. It wasn't, like, one moment. It was a gradual process, and I accepted different parts of my disability at different points."
Ezra credited his parents, Saw actress Bahar Soomekh and businessman Clayton Frech , for teaching him confidence from a young age.
"I knew the path to walk down. It was about letting go and walking down that path," he said. "Part of it, I think, just comes with time. Like, in middle school, everybody's insecure. In early high school, everybody's insecure. Part of it, honestly, was having successful relationship with women that saw me for who I was beyond, like, some physical difference, and particularly with my left hand, so I had some healing experiences with girls [after] that one incident that definitely helped progress toward a point of acceptance, but I had the framework. It was there."
Ezra celebrated his mother's love during DWTS ' Dedication Night on Tuesday, October 20. Soomekh, 51, joined her son and his pro partner, Daniella Karagach , on the ballroom floor as they performed a moving contemporary dance. The routine — during which Karagach, 33, impressively balanced on the blade of Ezra's prosthetic — earned the pair the first 10 of season 35, with a total score of 37 out of 40 points.
"The confidence and the security in myself and in the fact that I'm different, it comes from her," Ezra told Us of his mom after the episode. "To get to share a moment like that with her on a stage that [I'm] now becoming more and more comfortable with ... is very special. That was a lot of fun. We're gonna remember that for the rest of our lives."
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State seeks death penalty for mom who says her twin toddlers died from vaccines
PAYETTE, Idaho (Court TV) — Prosecutors in Idaho have announced their intent to seek the death penalty for a woman they say killed her twin toddlers.
Andrea Shaw appears in court on Aug. 18, 2026. (Court TV)
Andrea Shaw, 23, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her 18-month-old children, identified in court documents as D.S. and T.S. Shaw appeared briefly at a hearing in August to enter the not-guilty pleas, and has maintained through court filings that her children died not at her hands, but from reactions to vaccines.
In his notice of intent to seek the death penalty, prosecutor Ryon Sirucek wrote that the state will rely on four aggravating circumstances. “At the time the murder was committed, the defendant also committed another murder,” Sirucek wrote. “The murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity.” Sirucek also wrote that the defendant “exhibited utter disregard for human life” and that her conduct “has exhibited a propensity to commit murder which will probably constitute a continuing threat to society.”
While D.S. and T.S. died in May 2025, Shaw wasn’t arrested until July 2026 — days after she had given birth to another baby prematurely. In a motion seeking release, Shaw’s attorney described her as “sweet and quiet” and noted that Shaw was still breastfeeding when she was taken into custody. Citing concerns about the safety of the newborn, Judge Kiley Stuchlik revoked Shaw’s bond and ordered her to stay in jail pending her trial.
Shaw’s defense team maintains her innocence. In an affidavit filed with her motion to reduce her bond, Shaw’s mother-in-law wrote that the defendant repeatedly sought medical care for her children in the days after she reluctantly agreed to have them vaccinated at their pediatrician’s office. While Shaw’s defense attorney has said that the coroner doesn’t agree with the prosecution’s theory that the children were suffocated, prosecutors said at a recent hearing that three doctors had reviewed the case files and all had ruled out vaccines as contributing to the children’s deaths.
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Court records indicate that Shaw has added a new attorney to her team, with California attorney Richard Jaffe granted pro hac vice admission to practice in the Idaho court in a filing last week. Jaffe will represent Shaw alongside her previous attorney, Joseph Filicetti.
Shaw’s next status conference is scheduled for Nov. 4. No trial date has been set.
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Billy Crystal ‘s career, from his catch-a-rising-star stand-up days of the 1970s, his groundbreaking role as TV’s first regular-cast gay character on the sitcom Soap and through his years as both a top Hollywood director and what many consider the greatest host in Oscar history, gets a fine, funny and emotional telling in 860 , Crystal’s new solo show opening tonight on Broadway .
And if the fact that it’s Crystal himself performing the career retrospective that most stars don’t live to see, the show quickly dissipates any notion of self-congratulations or back-patting: Crystal is the sort of comic who can infuse his material with just the right amount of self-deprecation to seem like something of an underdog in life’s kennel, a pretty impressive feat given the man’s charmed life. Related Stories News Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal, Bradley Whitford Prove Strong Ticket Draws - Broadway Box Office News Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Warriors' Broadway Cast To Include Casey Likes, Amber Gray & Jasmine Cephas Jones; Opening Date, Venue Announced
Well, charmed from the outside. Taking its title from the street address of Crystal’s longtime Pacific Palisades home, where the comedian raised his two daughters with wife Janice and where, in his home office, he kept a lifetime of treasured keepsakes, 860 , smoothly directed by Scott Ellis, begins in tragedy: The home was destroyed in the apocalyptic 2025 Palisades wildfires, incinerating decades-worth of career mementos, cherished childhood touchstones and the relics of a past that marked the many friendships and family moments that are a source of emotional grounding for a sentimental pack-rat like Crystal. Watch on Deadline
In fact, it’s that sentimentality that goes a long way in heading off potential audience resistance. Crystal is, after all, a wealthy, heavily insured man, and a focus on the loss of stuff – none of his family or friends were injured in the blaze – could, in less skilled hands, be more than a little off-putting.
But Crystal uses these lost objects the way Proust pondered a madeleine, as a vibe-inducing cue that can transport him – and, with him as our guide, us – back to the highlights of a life filled with many. And since we’ve all borne witness to so many this star’s transformational moments both public and private, we can’t help being moved by the poignance of the nostalgia offered up from stage of the Imperial Theatre.
With a set design by Tony winner Scott Pask that recreates Crystal’s now-lost sanctum sanctorum down to the framed photos of dear friends and co-stars past, and baseball memorabilia from his own childhood mitt to equipment autographed by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. Jen Schriever’s lighting design makes sure we’re looking at the right spot at the right time, and video work – old home movies, classic performance clips – by Hana S. Kim and Kylee Loera is emotionally transporting and plot-moving in equal measure.
Those videos (along with the sound design by Dan Moses Schreier) take us right back to a past that can be terrifying (news and personal footage of the fires), hilarious (a clip from Soap reminds us of just what a jewel we had in Katherine Helmond) and heart-tugging (the moment when Crystal was briefly caught off guard by the surprise appearance of his friend Muhammad Ali onto the stage of an early HBO comedy special. Pure gold).
As helpful as all the film evidence is, Crystal, if need would ever be, could do without it: This is a performer whose early skills for mimicry and delivering a punch line have, if it’s even possible, sharpened over the decades. His recreation of the career-making ’70s routine in which he plays both parts of a ringside conversation between Ali and sportscaster-nemesis Howard Cosell is as uncanny as ever, and his recollection of an early-career spot as the opening act for Blood, Sweat and Tears works even if you’ve never heard of David Clayton-Thomas or “Spinning Wheel.”
The show business highlights are here, of course. There’s the “You look marvelous” era of Saturday Night Live , his Hannibal Lecter Oscar-host entrance, late-night guest appearances, City Slickers, When Harry Met Sally , and even, as if to demonstrate the play’s expanse, a quick mention of his film debut in Joan Rivers’ dismal Rabbit Test , “the worst movie ever made,” as its star recalls.
Lots of these career milestones are, in hindsight, bittersweet, as such memories tend to be. The 1986 Comic Relief fundraiser stirs recollections of his great friend Robin Williams and the toll of that death, and his love of baseball is inextricably tied to the father he lost as a teenager.
But no other moments in the show cut as close to the bone as the recollections of Crystal’s longtime best friend, Rob Reiner. He first broaches the subject in a roundabout fashion, paying tribute to Norman Lear, the groundbreaking TV producer who saw a young Crystal perform at the Comedy Store and hired him to play the best friend of Reiner’s Michael Stivic in an episode of All in the Family . Addressing Lear directly, Crystal says, “You told me, ‘I think you two will be great together,'” then adds, after a recap of This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally , “So that’s why I wanted to thank Norman Lear. Unknowingly, he made it possible to have the friend of a lifetime.”
Crystal, inevitably, circles back to Reiner, saying about the Palisades fire, as if warning the audience of rough times ahead, “2025 was the worst year of our lives. We couldn’t imagine anything worse than our house burning down. But then on December 14th, there was a phone call.” In a flash, “the unimaginable became reality.”
While 860 doesn’t ignore its creator’s lows, Crystal is too much the entertainer to leave the stage without some light and hope. There’s a sweet moment when he, grieving the loss of his friend, recalls some inspirational words from Ali, something getting back up when you’re knocked down, and the comic takes it to heart. And there are a few objects that, against all odds, survive the blaze, though by the end of 860 we know Crystal could do just fine without stuff.
Title : 860 Venue: Broadway’s Imperial Theatre Written And Performed By: Billy Crystal Directed By: Scott Ellis Running Time: 1 hr 35 min (no intermission)
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White House Correspondents’ Association President Jacqui Heinrich said that the Trump administration was engaged in retaliation by blocking a journalist’s access because the president was upset over his questions. Heinrich, senior White House correspondent for Fox News, said in a statement on Wednesday, “The White House Correspondents’ Association strongly objects to the decision to restrict […]
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